Well folks, the jury is in.
I just spent two hours revamping my "broken" registrations that show the Knob window instead of the Slider window. There is no way to fix this! The recent updates have caused this problem. I’m starting to hear from a few others who are seeing the same problem. It's not wide spread but I can tell you, it is a major nuisance!
I had 50 registrations in one folder. I spotted the few that were saved with Live Control turned off. I recreated them and saved them under a slightly different name, deleted the broken one, and then renamed the fixed one to its original name. It was going well until I opened another broken registration. I went back to the registration I had just fixed and it is now broken!! The only fix so far, is to push the registration button twice, then the Slider window appears. This is not a decent solution when you play in a band that blends one song into the next.
Even if this fix worked, it would take me weeks to rebuild all my registrations because some have a huge amount of parameter, effects, and EQ changes. I even tried fixing a broken registration making the Slider window appear, and then saving the registration under a different name. It worked once but the second time I opened it, the registration reverted to the Knob window. In short, those who were dumb enough (like me) to build a huge library of registrations with some where Live Control was unchecked, are basically screwed thanks to Yamaha and their moronic updates. Eileen may be on to something when she said that carrying forward registrations from lower models to the Genos, can introduce issues. And please – feel free to NOT chime in and tell me you’ve loaded registrations from your PSR3000, through all the Tyros keyboards, to the Genos without any issues and with no tweaks! That comment does me no good.
From the Yamaha website,
[V2.00 to V2.01]
Fixed a problem in which the Registration Memory function would not work properly in some cases.
To me this says Yamaha created a global command to make the Knob window the default one. If any registration has a minor error or omission, the Knob window is selected by default. If I had my way, I’d revert to the lowest possible update I can. Any thoughts on that? What is the lowest one that would work? The only improvement I’ve ever used since the original release is the ability to put the focus on a volume slider first before making the adjustment. The rest of the stuff I’ve never used and could care less about.